Presidential Meetings and Statements

Images of a president delivering statements and engaging in high-level security meetings with officials, featuring formal settings and serious discussions.

President Barack Obama in bipartisan Congressional Leadership meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on April 14, 2010. (left to right: Rep. Steny Hoyer, D MD, Rep. John A Boehner, R OH; Speaker of House Nancy Pelosi, D CA; President Obama; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D NV)

With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter looking on, President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the global campaign to degrade and destroy ISIL, as well as Syria and other regional issues, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 2016.

President Barack Obama meets with members of his national security team to discuss developments in the Boston bombings investigation, in the Situation Room of the White House, April 19, 2013. Pictured, from left, are: FBI Director Robert Mueller; Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Attorney General Eric Holder; Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken; and Vice President Joe Biden.

President Barack Obama holds a Homeland Security Council meeting in the Cabinet Room to discuss the H1N1 flu virus, May 1, 2009. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. This official White House photograph is being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated or used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

President Barack Obama meets with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room of the White House, March 12, 2010. From left, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and President Obama.

President Barack Obama in bipartisan Congressional Leadership meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on April 14, 2010. (left to right: Rep. Steny Hoyer, D MD, Rep. John A Boehner, R OH; Speaker of House Nancy Pelosi, D CA; President Obama; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D NV)

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, left, and Jack Lew, Director Office of Management and Budget, right, meet with Senate Democratic leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Dec. 6, 2010.

President Barack Obama meets with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and Senior Advisor Brian Deese, right, in the Oval Office, April 21, 2015.

President Barack Obama meets with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John S. Pistole, right, in the Oval Office to discuss transportation security, Oct. 12, 2010.

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President Barack Obama is briefed by Richard Reed, Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Senior Director for Resilience Policy, in the Oval Office, April 26, 2011, before a phone call with Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe to discuss tornado damage in that state.

President Barack Obama participates in a conference call with electric utility executives to discuss the restoration of power for those who lost electricity during Hurrican Sandy, in the Situation Room of the White House, Oct. 30, 2012. John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Alyssa Mastromonaco, Deputy Chief of Staff for Ops, listen at right.

Phil Schiliro, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, left, and Senior Advisor David Axelrod, stand in the Oval Office while President Barack Obama speaks on a conference call to Sen. Harry Reid and Patrick Leahy, June 9, 2009. Official White House

Department Spokesperson Ned Price holds the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 7, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken co-hosts the virtual 2022 U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee (�2+2�) meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, joined by Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa, Japanese Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. and Tokyo, Japan, on January 6, 2022.

President Barack Obama talks to a Member of Congress on the phone in the Oval Office, March 21, 2010. Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro works in the background.

President Barack Obama meets with staff in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to discuss the ongoing negotiations on a budget funding bill, April 8, 2011. Pictured, from left, are: National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling; Bruce Reed, Chief of Staff to the Vice President; Phil Schiliro, Assistant to the President and Special Advisor; and Nancy-Ann DeParle, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.

President Barack Obama reflects during a meeting with his full Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Sept. 10, 2009.

President Barack Obama at a NSC Meeting in the Situation Room. Participants include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright, DNI Dennis Blair, White House Counsel Greg Craig, CIA Director Leon Panetta, Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, NSC Advisor Gen. James "Jim" Jones, and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel 3/16/09. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

U.S. Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price briefs reporters during a department press briefing, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2021.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with Governors and Mayors in the Oval Office of the White House Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to discuss the American Rescue Plan. To the Presidents right, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham; Detroit, Michigan Mayor Mike Duggan; Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan; White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients; Atlanta, Georgia Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms; Arlington, Texas Mayor Jeff Williams; Miami, Florida Mayor Francis Suarez; Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson; White House Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese; and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

President Barack Obama meets with National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice and National Security Council staff in the Situation Room of the White House, April 3, 2014.

President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, in the Oval Office, Sept. 28, 2012.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry responds to questions from employees during a town hall at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 28, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo hosts a working dinner with a Chinese delegation in Honolulu, HI, on June 16, 2020.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 21, 2022.

President Barack Obama talks with Shivshankar Menon, national security advisor of India, who was attending a meeting in National Security Advisor Tom Donilon's office in the White House, Jan. 28, 2011.

President Barack Obama, holding a football, offers a fist-bump April 8, 2009, to senior staff member Pete Rouse, during a meeting with senior advisors in the Oval Office. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

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President Barack Obama talks on the phone with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Chief of Staff Bill Daleys West Wing Office at the White House to discuss ongoing efforts in the debt limit and deficit reduction talks, Sunday, July 31, 2011. Chief of Staff Bill Daley, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

President Barack Obama speaks with Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, Paulette Aniskoff, Director of the Office of Public Engagement and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett prior to a meeting with labor leaders in the Oval Office, Jan. 14, 2015.

President Barack Obama holds an expanded delegation bilateral meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office, Sept. 1, 2010.

President Barack Obama participates in a bilateral meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, N.Y., Sept. 21, 2011.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Chilean Foreign Minister Andr�s Allamand, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on July 16, 2021.

President Barack Obama meets with Chase Cushman, Director of Scheduling and Advance in the Oval Office, March 27, 2015.

President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors in the Oval Office, Dec. 20, 2010.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a roundtable discussion with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in Miami, Florida, on January 23, 2020.

Congressman Joe Courtney (D-CT), won office in the mid-term elections by the smallest margin of all the Dems

President Barack Obama works on his State of the Union address with staff in the Oval Office, Feb. 12, 2013. Seated, from left, are: Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications; Director of Speechwriting Jon Favreau; and Cody Keenan, Deputy Director of Speechwriting.

President Barack Obama meets with Latino leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Feb. 11, 2011. Flanking the President are Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

President Barack Obama arrives for a terrorism threat briefing in the Oval Office, March 9, 2011.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a meet and greet with U.S. Mission Kuwait, in Kuwait City, Kuwait on July 29, 2021.

President Barack Obama signs the payroll tax bill (HR3765) in the Oval Office on December 23, 2011.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hold a national security cyber briefing to discuss efforts to counter ransomware, Wednesday, July 7, 2021, in the White House Situation Room.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with, from right, State Department Chief of Staff Jon Finer, White House Senior Adviser Brian Deese, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, and Attorney-Adviser for the Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Sue Biniaz on December 7, 2015, amid meetings at the COP21 climate change summit venue at Le Bourget Airport in Paris, France.

National Secretary Advisor Robert O�Brien delivers remarks to the media on Iran Snapback Sanctions, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on September 21, 2020.

Presidential hopefuls speak at a bipartisan forum hosted by the International Association of Fire Fighters

President Barack Obama talks with Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., during the nationally televised bipartisan meeting on health insurance reform at Blair House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 25, 2010.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter standing behind his desk in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Marion S. Trikosko, February 2, 1977

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U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the media in the Press Briefing Room, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2020.

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Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo departs the Harry S Truman Building in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2021.

President Barack Obama meets with the Senate Republican Caucus in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2011.

National Security Council Executive Committee (EXCOMM) Meeting, 10:10AM. President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. (L-R) President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (seated), and White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.

President Barack Obama talks with electric utility executives and trade association representatives before a meeting to discuss lessons learned and actions taken since Hurricane Sandy, at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., May 8, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stokes firewood in the fireplace of his Outer Office at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., as he prepares to meet with retired Coast Guard Admiral Robert Papp - now Special Representative for the Arctic - about Arctic climate issues on January 9, 2015.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hosts a virtual roundtable with the Department�s Thursday Luncheon Group (TLG) Employee Affinity Group (EAG) along with the Association of Black American Ambassadors (ABAA), Blacks in Government Carl T. Rowan chapter (BIGCTR), and the Pickering and Rangel Fellows Association (PRFA) in honor of Black History Month and to discuss the contributions of African American diplomats: past, present and future, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on February 28, 2022.

President Barack Obama meets with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and advisors in the Oval Office, prior to making a statement on the START treaty, March 26, 2010. Attending are: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Admiral Mike Mullen, Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Mike McFaul, Gary Samore, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, and others.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signing the ratification of Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces INF Treaty, Moscow, Russia, USSR, President Ronald Reagan White House Photographic Office, June 1, 1988

President Barack Obama signs the proclamation marking the National Day of Prayer in the Oval Office of the White House May 7, 2009. Looking on is Joshua DuBois, Director of the White House Office for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Deputy Secretary Robert Zoellick hosting meeting with Pakistan's Minister of Commerce, Humayun Akhtar Khan

Department Spokesperson Ned Price holds the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 11, 2021.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks to the press at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2022.

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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an interview with Maria Grazzia Acosta of Teleamazonas in Quito, Ecuador, on October 19, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks to embassy employees during a meet and greet at U.S. Embassy Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya on May 4, 2015.

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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a meet and greet with U.S. Mission Kuwait, in Kuwait City, Kuwait on July 29, 2021.

President Barack Obama and VP Joseph Biden participate in 'Opportunity For All', the President's call to action to give the long-term unemployed a fair shot.

President Barack Obama meets with Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough, right, and speechwriter Ben Rhodes on Air Force One on route to Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers virtual remarks to the 5th Annual U.S.-India Forum from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 3, 2021.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh signs U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's guestbook before their working lunch at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 2, 2014.

Madrid, 02/21/2020. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, holds a meeting with the local and regional authorities with powers in the Campo de Gibraltar. Photo: Óscar del Pozo. ARCHDC.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a Virtual Town Hall with Mission Italy in a conference room, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 2020.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a virtual roundtable with emerging journalists, in Tokyo, Japan on March 17, 2021.

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Israeli Opposition Leader Isaac �Buji� Herzog listens as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters before a bilateral meeting on November 24, 2015, in the Reading Room at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

Department Spokesperson Ned Price holds the Daily Press Briefing at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 2021. During the briefing, Spokesperson Price was joined by Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs Timothy Alan Betts and Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs Stanley Brown to talk about the release of the annual To Walk the Earth in Safety (TWEIS) report.

Condoleezza Rice confers with Stephen J. Hadley and Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary checks his notes while George W. Bush and President Roh Moo-Hyun of South Korea answer questions Sept 14, 2006.

President Barack Obama talks with senior advisors before a phone call with President François Hollande of France in the Oval Office, June 27, 2012. Pictured, from left, are Larry Pfeiffer, Director of Operations, the Situation Room; Mike Froman, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics; Caroline Atkinson, Special Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs; National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling; Elizabeth "Liz" Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European Affairs; and Chief of Staff Jack Lew.

United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan signs Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken's guestbook at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 13, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks followed by a reception with seventy-five members of the Vietnamese business community on July 8, 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam. (

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shakes hands with Sri Lanka Minister of External Affairs G.L. Peiris after a bilateral meeting and a joint press availability in the Treaty Room at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 2010.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and newly elected House leadership talk to the media

President Barack Obama holds the door while talking to Chief of Staff Bill Daley inside his office in the West Wing of the White House, March 8, 2011.

Senior Official for the Bureau of International Religious Freedom Daniel Nadel delivers remarks to the press on the release of the 2020 International Religious Freedom Report, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on May 12, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a working breakfast with President Donald J. Trump and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in London, England, on December 3, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza address reporters before their bilateral meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 4, 2014. Leaders from across the African continent are in the nation's capital for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the largest event any U.S. President has held with African heads of state and government.

President Barack Obama is briefed on the situation in Libya by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, in Chilmark, Mass., Aug. 26, 2011.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an interview with Maria Grazzia Acosta of Teleamazonas in Quito, Ecuador, on October 19, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Danish Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen, with their respective advisers, including U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Rufus Gifford, sit down for a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 16, 2016.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a virtual joint press availability with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 5, 2022.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 18, 2022.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers remarks at a virtual COVID-19 Ministerial from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on November 10, 2021.

President Barack Obama holds a meeting in the Situation Room of the White House, May 31, 2012.

Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu signs Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo's guestbook before their bilateral meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 19, 2020.

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